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Chapter 4 Installing the Aurora Browse System Software
Name .
This changes the host name to be the same as the device name.
4. Click OK .
Pinging devices from the control point PC
You can send the ping command to one or more devices in the system
description over the network to which the control point PC is connected.
Typically this is the control network.
1. In the Network Configuration | Networks tree view, select a network, site, or system
node.
2. In the Devices list view, select one or more devices. Use Ctrl + Click or Shift +
Click to select multiple devices.
3. Right-click the selected device or devices and select Ping .
The Ping Devices dialog box opens and lists the selected device or devices.
The Ping Devices dialog box reports the progress and results of the
ping command per device.
About hosts files and SiteConfig
SiteConfig uses the network information in the system description to
define a hosts file and allows you to view the hosts file. SiteConfig
can manage this hosts file on Windows operating system devices that
are in the system description and that are part of a SiteConfig man-
aged network.
When you have successfully assigned devices and applied planned
network settings to interfaces, it is an indication that host table infor-
mation, as currently captured in the system description, is valid and
that you are ready to have SiteConfig assemble the host table infor-
mation into a hosts file. Your options for placing this host table infor-
mation on devices are as follows:
• If you do not want SiteConfig to manage your host table information, you can
manage it yourself. This is typically the case if your facility has an existing hosts
file that contains host table information for devices that are not in the SiteConfig
system description. In this case, you can have SiteConfig generate a single hosts
file that contains the host table information for the devices in the system
description. You can then copy the desired host table information out of the
SiteConfig hosts file and copy it into your facility hosts file. You must then
distribute your facility hosts file to devices using your own mechanisms.
• If you want SiteConfig to manage all information in hosts files on devices, you can
have SiteConfig copy its hosts file to devices. In so doing, SiteConfig overwrites
the existing hosts files on devices. Therefore, this requires that all devices that have
name resolution through the hosts file be configured accordingly in the SiteConfig
system description.